face plant in spokane

It was a beautiful night to walk around the market district in Spokane.  The pups were loving all the smells and were reading all their messages on the tree stumps and such.  I had Piper and John had Marla. Tra la la we were strolling like a couple of kids in the open market and micro brewery.  Suddenly, I felt a tug on my leg and then slowly realized I was going to fall flat on my face on the cement! I could feel myself making a spectacular sailing crash right past the patrons having their micro brews!  I sailed past them horizontally and with great momentum and then WHAM! Landing right on my elbows and chin! Somehow my shoe flew off mid flight and piper came right out of her harness! She was baffled and shocked and had no idea what just happened! I was completely flat out on my stomach and when I lifted my head, my chin had split open and blood was pouring out with reckless abandon.  John reached over and gave me his ever present pocket bandana (Cass knows the one) to keep it from looking like a murder scene. 

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Fortunately, there were two off duty female paramedics who got me back together. John had to collect PIper who was all "RAAAAHHHH! I AM SCARED FOR MY LIFE!" running around the market. When he finally got her back into her harness, then Marla got loose and started trotting off for safety!  In the end, my forehead and nose were badly bruised, I had a very deep gash in my chin, my elbows and knees were bruised.  Over the next few days, the bruising around my forehead and nose bled around my eyes so I looked like Alice Cooper in full shock makeup! Dang it!